Last week saw major stories in most of the industries we cover, from airlines and finance, to real estate and energy. Friday alone produced the departure of MoneyGram CEO Pamela Patsley , the headquarters move of D.R Horton, the eye-popping financial numbers from Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp., and the Texas Rangers sealing a deal for a legitimate No.
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DANA POINT, Calif.-Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist who co-founded a sprawling web of conservative interest groups, opened his biannual conference here Saturday by calling for an end to corporate welfare and singling out "big banks" as a primary offender. The press-shy 79-year-old chief executive of Koch Industries took the nation's biggest banks to task for accepting "massive bailouts" and cheap loans from the Federal Reserve in return for the federal government wielding increased influence over how they run their businesses.
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Black Hills National Forest officials are mourning the death of a U.S. Forest Service firefighter who died this week while battling a wildfire in California. Thirty-eight-year-old David Ruhl, of Rapid City, vanished Thursday while fighting a fast-moving blaze in Modoc National Forest.
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"Unleashing Our Free Society" is a mostly Republican attended event happening this weekend in Dana Point, California. Yesterday, August 1, 2015, Charles Koch of Koch Industries spoke with a mostly conservative group calling for an end to corporate welfare , including those his own company benefits from.
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DANA POINT, Calif.-Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist who co-founded a sprawling web of conservative interest groups, opened his biannual conference here Saturday by calling for an end to corporate welfare and singling out "big banks" as a primary offender.
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Dana Point, Calif . - Imagine paradise, and the image you conjure in your head is probably something like the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort here in Southern California, minus the dozen or so protestors milling languidly at the entrance.
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Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov had a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the initiative of the Russian side. Turkmenistan's government said July 31 that during the phone conversation, the president expressed confidence in the prospects for boosting the mutually beneficial cooperation.
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Exxon Mobil Corp. profit dropped by half in the second quarter on sharply lower oil and gas prices around the world, but the company's oil and gas production, which has been generally declining in recent years, surged.
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School may still be out for the summer, but high school athletes all got back to work on Saturday. It was the first official day of practices for all of the OHSAA's 822 member schools that sanction fall sports, which include girls tennis, girls and boys golf, girls and boys cross country, field hockey, boys and girls soccer, volleyball and football.
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Irvine-based MBK Real Estate has been named one of the best places to work in Orange County by the Orange County Business Journal and Best Companies Group . Information was gathered from both employees and the employer in the form of a survey that detailed company practices, policies, benefits and demographics.
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The Koch conspiracy theorists are having a field day this weekend, as the bi-annual confab of Koch brothers donors got underway on Saturday. In addition to about 450 contributores, no less than 5 GOP presidential candidates will make an appearance through Sunday.Saturday featured "auditions" by two prominent White House hopefuls Scott Walker and Carly Fiorina.
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The billionaire is co-owner and an executive vice president of Koch Industries, a conglomerate that is the second-largest privately held company in the U.S. He's worth an estimated $42.9 billion. As top GOP presidential candidates arrived at a hotel here to court the influential donors of the Koch network, Charles Koch called on retreat attendees to unite with him in a campaign against "corporate welfare" and "irresponsible spending" by both political parties.
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Technology, health care and business service companies are seeking more office space in downtown Denver, while demand from the energy sector is cooling, according to a report from CBRE Research. Of the 2.8 million square feet being sought as of July, business services made up the largest slice of the commercial real estate pie, with 18 percent of all demand on a square-footage basis, followed by energy at 17 percent, health care at 11 percent, and financial services and legal each at 10 percent.
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TransCanada Corp., the company planning to build the controversial cross-Canada oil pipeline, had been estimating it would cost $12-billion. On a quarterly conference call, CEO Russ Girling said the likely increase is due to adjusting the pipeline's route following feedback from communities, governments and indigenous peoples as well as higher construction costs.
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